AI Operations Engineer

SimpliGov LLC • Baltimore, MD

1d • $130,000 • Remote

About The Position

We are building an engineering organization where autonomous agents move code from intent to production, while humans own judgment, standards, and direction. This role owns the delivery system that makes that safe. You will evolve our existing release infrastructure into an AI-enabled CI/CD system—automating coding pipelines, validation, orchestration, and reconciliation. The goal is to replace manual coordination with system-enforced production readiness, dependency awareness, and release safety.

Requirements

• 5+ years building engineering systems (CI/CD, internal platforms, developer tooling, or infrastructure) in SaaS or platform environments
• You write production code. This role builds and operates systems; it does not track them
• Hands-on depth in pipeline design, integration failure analysis, dependency management, feature flags, and progressive delivery
• Experience operating LLM or agent systems in production, or clear evidence you will get there fast; using AI tools is table stakes, running them safely is the job
• Experience in compliance-constrained environments (government, healthcare, finance) is a plus
• Strong systems thinking, operational rigor, and clear writing

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the agentic CI/CD stack: autonomous build loops, build gates, integration validation, progressive rollout, and rollback
• Extend our reconciliation layer so system truth is machine-derived rather than human-claimed: affected services, ticket-to-commit linkage, deploy-vs-release state, flag state
• Build the mission control layer: one live, machine-derived picture of what is built, validated, deployed, released, and flagged, serving humans and agents alike
• Design the human-in-the-loop model: when agents proceed autonomously, when they stop, who is escalated to, and with what evidence
• Instrument agent behavior end to end (traces, evaluations, failure and drift analysis) so every autonomous action is explainable and auditable
• Codify release policy as code: what ships, when, and with what proof
• Meter AI usage and cost across the pipeline; drive per-workload routing and unit-economics remediation
• Replace cross-team coordination with contracts, dependency detection, and validation mechanisms
• Partner with DevOps and engineers on pipeline reliability, environment stability, and test coverage
• Evolve the operating process itself: how work flows from commit to validation to release without manual choreography, within a FedRAMP-conscious compliance boundary

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, with significant employer contributions for employees AND dependents
• Company-sponsored life + disability insurances
• 11 Paid holidays
• Flexible time off
• 401k plan with 4% employer match
• Monthly stipends for wellness and home office expenses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed